I didn’t want to pay for a course
When I started learning to trade, I didn’t want to buy a course. Almost everything they teach is already on the internet, for free, if you are willing to dig for it.
So I dug. I watched YouTube for hours a day, almost every day. But it always felt like the videos were built to keep me watching the next one, or to sell me something at the end. I was learning, but slowly, in scattered pieces, and never sure what to trust.
So I wrote my own lessons
What I really wanted was one place with all of it, laid out in order and easy to understand. That didn’t exist, so as I learned, I built my own lessons from the best advice I could find and a lot of research.
Those notes became the TradeBolt Academy.
Then I started trading for real
I have been trading for a few years now, mainly futures, on prop firm accounts and on a live account. Once I started, I realised that to treat it as a skill rather than a quick-money scheme, I had to slow down, learn properly and use the right tools.
The problem was the cost. I ended up paying for several different sites just to backtest a strategy by hand or use the indicators I needed.
One affordable place for everything
That is why my team and I have been building these tools: so traders can have everything in one place, at a price that makes sense, instead of a subscription for every job.
Where I am today
I still trade, but not full time: it’s something I do alongside the rest of my life, not my job. I’m still learning too, and everything I learn, and every tool I wish I had, goes back into TradeBolt.
If something on the site is unclear, wrong or missing, tell me. That feedback shapes what we build next.
A few snapshots from my own trading
Micro Gold short, TradeBolt FVG indicator on the chart
Crude oil short on the 1 minute
30 days, 15 Mar to 14 Apr, losses includedReal trades from my own accounts. I picked these, so they show good days rather than a typical result, and I lose trades too. Futures and spread bets are high risk, most retail traders lose money, and past results don’t predict future ones.